Intermittent problem - CMS Audio - sometimes works

Meta tag
Audio: trumpetpodcast16.m4a

Republished all - to make sure audio file got loaded again - (not overwriting CMS -doing all online)

Checked on line CMS - path is correct - name is correct

Sometimes will play - sometimes will not
Very Strange

Downloaded the CMS folder from the server and checked the meta data…

Is the problem the brackets? why are they there? [ ] see picture below

For some reason - I checked all the other podcast files - no brackets…

Must be that - How did it get added?

@ben seems to be adding brackets on the meta data in CMS V2

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The field type in the online CMS is set to array, you need to switch it to resource for that folder/collection.

Thanx will change that - didn’t know about that…

quick update here to say we’ve fixed the underlying cause of those mystery square brackets :slightly_smiling_face:

The Online Editor’s frontmatter serialiser could turn a field into an array under certain conditions (emptying a field and refilling it was the usual trigger), and one corrupted file could then flip the detected field type for the whole folder — which is why a single podcast post had brackets when the rest didn’t.

From the next Elements 3 update, fields always save as plain strings, and re-saving an affected post in the editor cleans up any brackets already there. No more downloading the CMS folder to hunt for them :smiley: